June 20, 2022
Nation braces for ruling that could overturn Roe
Amid vow of 'Night of Rage,' threats against conservative justices
by Art Moore
WND.com
Protesters outside the home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Virginia in Saturday.
Amid threats of violence and controversial demonstrations at the homes of justices, the Supreme Court is expected to issue at least one ruling Tuesday, including the abortion case that would overrule the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision if the leaker majority opinion holds.
If not Tuesday, the Mississippi decision could be announced Thursday, which is the second day designated by the court to release opinions. The ruling could be announced on another day if the court designates additional "opinion issuance" days before its summer recess.
In the leaked draft opinion, which was confirmed by Chief Justice John Roberts to be authentic, Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote for a 5-4 majority that Roe "was egregiously wrong from the start."
However, Roberts has said that the draft – which circulated in February and was reported May 2 by Politico – may not be the court's final decision.
The overturn of Roe would not ban abortion. Prior to the 1973 ruling, each state determined the legal status of the procedure. At least 26 states are likely to restrict abortion, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, including 22 with anti-abortion laws that would be reinstated or triggered as soon as Roe falls.
Metal barriers were erected in front of the Supreme Court building the day after the leak was made public. Demonstrations have taken place since then outside the court and at the homes of five conservative justices, particularly Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Two weeks ago, a man who traveled from California man faces an attempted murder charges after he was found outside Kavanaugh’s house with a gun, pepper spray and other weapons.
A far-left group called Ruth Sent Us published the home addresses of Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. Earlier this month, Ruth Sent us posted a "special message" to Kavanaugh's wife and children outside the children's school.
Abortion activists soaked in fake blood and carrying baby dolls protested Saturday outside Barrett's home in Virginia.
Meanwhile, the anarchist group Jane's Revenge is planning a "Night of Rage" if the Supreme Court overturns Roe. Activists are urged to "hit the streets" and "riot." The group warns: "To our oppressors: If abortions aren't safe, you're not either."
Last Wednesday, more than 120 members of Congress demanded that Attorney General Merrick Garland take action on Jane's Revenge, listing 14 attacks since the majority-opinion leak. In a letter Friday to Garland, William Donahue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights asked for the "full resources of the Department of Justice to apprehend and prosecute domestic terrorists who have recently attacked Catholic individuals, vandalized Catholic churches and torched Catholic-operated crisis pregnancy centers."
President Biden signed a bill Thursday that will give 24-hour security protection to the families of Supreme Court justices.
A law enacted in 1950 makes it illegal to picket or parade in front of a courthouse or a judge's home "with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge."
The White House has refused to condemn or take action against the protests, and some legal analysts have insisted that the law does not ban people from marching past a justice's home.
ACLU attorney Vera Eidelman argues that banning that kind of protest "would unconstitutionally limit people's ability to protest in traditional public forums, including streets and sidewalks, and it would restrict our ability to communicate our messages of dissent, disgust, and disappointment to the public."
She contends the 1950 statute would be violated only by "[t]argeted, stationary protest, solely and directly in front of a justice's home, with the intention of influencing that justice’s opinion on a vote."
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turkey has criticized Biden and Garland for not condemning the home protests. But he believes the use of the 1950 law "to arrest protesters would be a serious blow to free speech and would be difficult to defend in the courts."
'We've heard enough of the extremists'
Immediately after the leak of the draft majority opinion, a visibly angry Sen. Elizabeth Warren vowed to "fight back."
"They have been out there plotting, carefully cultivating these Supreme Court justices," she said of Republicans in a walking interview, "so they could have a majority on the bench who could accomplish something that the majority of Americans do not want."
Members of a crowd that had gathered began talking over the senator, saying Americans don't want the bodies of children to be dismembered.
"Extremists," Warren said, raising her voice. "We've heard enough of the extremists, and we're tired of it."
http://www.wnd.com/2022/06/nation-braces-ruling-overturn-roe/
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